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A labour dispute could potentially mean we see fewer bananas and higher prices at the grocery store. And in another hit to ...
The strike by Chiquita banana workers in Panama came to an end this week, after the unions SITRAIBANA and SITRAPBI signed an ...
Panama's Minister of Labor, Jackeline Muñoz, informed that the administrative part of Chiquita Panama is no longer in the ...
Panama is one of the world's leading producers of bananas — they're considered a vital part of the Panamanian economy and one ...
PANAMA CITY — Banana giant Chiquita Brands has fired its workers ... following the unjustified abandonment of work at our plantations and operations centers since April 28 and continuing today ...
Banana producer Chiquita has announced mass layoffs in ... labourers go for the “unjustified abandonment of work at our plantations”. Workers have been on strike for more than a month, as ...
Not all of UFC’s former banana plantations came under the control of Chiquita, as Del Monte largely bought its Guatemalan holdings. Two aspects of United Fruit’s corporate power in its heyday ...
Chiquita Panama said the strike has cost it 'at least $75 million' in losses and caused 'irreversible damage' due to the workers' 'total abandonment' of the banana plantations. Domingo Becker ...
A mule-drawn cart hauls bananas on the United Fruit Company plantation near La Lima ... s decision last month against banana behemoth Chiquita Brands International for financing the paramilitary ...